Re: ada is getting spanked :(

[Martin Krischik <krischik@users.sourceforge.net>]

Jeffrey R. Carter schrieb:
> Martin Krischik wrote:
>>
>> I too have looked into implementing the test. I found out that there 
>> are several Big_Integer implementations - some a binding - some native.
>>
>> Really one would need to implement the test with all of them to find 
>> out which is the most effective Big_Integer implementation.
> 
> I have implemented the Pi-digits program using Jerome Delcourt's 
> Big_Number package
> 
> http://www.chez.com/bignumber/info.htm
> 
> 2500 digits takes about 7 s on my 3.2 GHz Pentium 4 HT/WinXP machine, so 
> that would be about 9 s on the comparison machine, putting Ada in the 
> vicinity of Python.

Would you mind adding it to the wikibook ada subversion archive

http://sourceforge.net/projects/wikibook-ada

So we will never loose it.

> I looked at Gautier de Montmollin's package, but there doesn't seem to 
> be a way to convert a big-num to an Integer.
> 
> Based on the Free Pascal entry, binding to gmp would be much faster.

But still faster then no entry as no entry is treated as slower then the 
slowest in the overall statistic.

Martin